Please describe the most significant activities you will implement, expand, or continue. These short and long term objectives and activities should result in increased diversity and/or the development of a more inclusive unit and campus climate. Your plan should support Michigan Tech in accomplishing its short and long term diversity goals.
| Specific Objective | Activity Description | Person(s) responsible for this objective | Timeline | Internal Dollars to be allocated | External Dollars to be sought | Other Comments | |
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| For Faculty | Press for stronger support for maternity programs for faculty and students | 1) Advocate the development of stronger maternity leave policies to enhance faculty recruiting; 2) Encourage the development of lactation stations for nursing mothers | Deans and chairs | 2010-11 | These steps require central administration funding/support , but CSA proposes to urge their adoption. | ||
| For Students | Indentify ways to increase recruitment of international students - undergraduate and especially graduate students. | 1) The college will seek to enhance existing connections between faculty (physics and chemistry in particular) with universities in India, and perhaps reaching China; 2) support efforts to take advantage of U.S. State Department programs that support and assist the recruitment of international students | Dean and appropriate department chairs; the Humanities Department takes the lead in connecting to State Department programs, but aim is to extend to all CSA departments | fall 2010-2013 | Existing travel resources, including research-related travel funds. Dean plans to travel to international venues at appropriate time to cement relationships. | HU will lead efforts to secure State Department funds and support for bringing international students to Michigan Tech. | |
| Increase recruitment efforts aimed at underrepresented minorities | 1) expand familiarity of admissions recruiters with CSA majors and programs, with the aim of removing the continuing lack of awareness of the range of programs offered within CSA; 2) underwrite participation of a CSA faculty member or chair at every SACNES meeting for the next few years; 3) support attempts to build bridges to tribal colleges, especially in Wisconsin | Dean to prepare documentation for recruiters; dean and chairs to identify recruiters annually; Mathematical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences departments take the lead in tribal program initiative | 2010-13 | one-time cost of printing CSA recruiting document; annual travel costs of ca: $1500, perhaps shared with graduate school for SCANES meeting. Existing resources utilized for tribal outreach | td> | ||
| Increase recruitment efforts aimed at underrepresented minorities | Insure support for new and existing majors and programs that are appropriate for a technological university, but which are also attractive to the wider general population of higher education students and learners. | Department chairs guide efforts to strengthen and develop degree programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, exercise science, clinical laboratory sciences, and other areas that broaden the appeal of D2, Michigan Tech to a wider student population | On-going | General fund increases eventually needed to support expansion/development of academic programs in these areas | |||
| For Staff |